A Little Good News

A Little Good News

When it comes to the state of our natural world: global warming, air pollution, waste built up, ozone layer degradation, species extinction, it appears there is little good news, little cause for celebration. But still, there are a few bright lights on the...
There Will Be No “New Normal”

There Will Be No “New Normal”

I warn you, this may be a bit of a “downer.”  The term “new normal” keeps coming up. We keep hearing that this is a “new normal” we are dealing with regarding Climate Change, but where did that term even originate, and what does it really mean, and most important,...
Our Uphill Battle

Our Uphill Battle

Dear Partners in Green, We try to be good stewards of the Earth, to conserve, reduce, reuse, recycle, and live responsibly, but it is an uphill battle. As much as we do for the betterment of our world, there is a force that is working against us. And that force is the...
Beef

Beef

Dear Partners in Green, I’m going to get right to the point. There are so many ways we can mitigate Climate Change, that is, reduce its effects by changes in our lifestyles: reduce use of plastics, limit our shopping, flying and driving, conserve water, plant a tree,...
Time

Time

Dear Partners in Green, It was in 2007 that Al Gore warned us in his book, An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming, that the Earth was in peril and that we were running out of time.  Action was needed immediately. And he certainly was not the first....
The Greatest Threat to Our Planet

The Greatest Threat to Our Planet

Dear Partners in Green, In 2006, Bill McKibben, a distinguished scholar at Middlebury College and leader of the climate campaign 350.org (whom I have mentioned in previous posts), wrote the book The End of Nature, one of the earliest warnings about global warming,...